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VG247.comFri, 09 Dec 2016 15:29:48 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3Scurvy Scallywags out now on iOShttp://www.vg247.com/2013/06/07/scurvy-scallywags-out-now-on-ios/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/06/07/scurvy-scallywags-out-now-on-ios/#respondFri, 07 Jun 2013 00:46:21 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=374811Beep games seems to have dropped a couple of words off the end of Ron Gilbert’s newgame, which launches today, leaving it with the comparatively modest 11 word “Scurvy Scallywags in The Voyage to Discover the Ultimate Sea Shanty”.

Previously, it was “Scurvy Scallywags in The Voyage to Discover the Ultimate Sea Shanty Launches: A Musical Match-3 Pirate RPG” which made me want to beat someone with my keyboard.

Anyway, the actual news is that the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch title is out now, offering a combination of Broadway musical and match-three gameplay described in a press release as “entirely fun”.

In the Beep Games published title, players move their pirate around the board by matching three or more tiles. With each match, the board shifts in the direction you swiped, so you can use strategy to line up your pirate with items you need or avoid enemies who are stronger than you.

But there’s more to it than that: players will fight and pillage their way through” four mysterious lands to find the hidden verses of a long-lost Ultimate Sea Shanty.”

Along the way they will be able to dress up their pirate, boost stats, acquire special skills, complete side quests, and tick off 50 hilarious GameCenter achievements.

Gilbert hopes to release the iOS game “within the next month.”

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/18/scurvy-scallywags-video-shows-off-rob-gilberts-ios-puzzler/feed/0Scurvy Scallywags: Ron Gilbert reveals next project with imageshttp://www.vg247.com/2013/03/20/scurvy-scallywags-ron-gilbert-reveals-next-project-with-images/
http://www.vg247.com/2013/03/20/scurvy-scallywags-ron-gilbert-reveals-next-project-with-images/#respondWed, 20 Mar 2013 12:16:08 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=350952Scurvy Scallywags is the next game from legendary adventure game developer Ron Gilbert. Just a week after he bid farewell to Double Fine, he’s back with the announcement of his next game. It’s described as a “musical match-3 pirate RPG”. You can’t say the man isn’t creative.

The game’s full name is Scurvy Scallywags in The Voyage to Discover the Ultimate Sea Shanty: A Musical Match-3 Pirate RPG, and it’s being developed for iOS together with DeathSpank co-creator Clayton Kauzlaric. It should be out within the next month, Gilbert hopes.

Gilbert discussed the project on his blog, and explained, “A few years back, Clayton and I made a match-3 game called Realms of Gold that had a interesting way the board collapsed,” Gilbert explained in a post on his blog.

“The game was a RPG, but we were told by the publisher that no one wanted to play a match-3 RPG, so that part of the game was watered down. Of course, a year later Puzzle Quests comes out and sells a billion copies.”

“Clayton and I screwed around with it for a bit, then he hit upon a way to make the collapsing work a lot better. Rather than the type of match you made dictating the direction the board collapsed, have the board collapse in the direction you swiped. I made this change and it felt fantastic and very intuitive.

“An odd side effect of doing this was you could move pieces around the board. So unlike Puzzle Quest – and just about every other match-3 RPG that sprang up after it – in Scurvy Scallywags you actually move your hero/pirate around the board and position her/him next to enemies to do battle. It creates this new layer to the matching that is a lot of fun.

“We have close to one hundred different hats, shirts, heads, swords, etc you find and use to dress up your pirate. There are also ten different ships to build, plus a sea shanty you collect that is sung by real life pirate singers (they work for grog, quite inexpensive).”